Patents Examined by Steven Rowland
  • Patent number: 10946277
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for controlling a virtual object. The method includes: identifying screen areas corresponding to a left virtual sub-interface and a right virtual sub-interface in a virtual interface on a screen of the terminal device; detecting a gesture operation performed in the screen area corresponding to the left virtual sub-interface and detecting a gesture operation performed in the screen area corresponding to the right virtual sub-interface; and controlling a virtual object in the virtual interface to perform an action when a gesture operation is detected in the screen area corresponding to the left virtual sub-interface and the screen area corresponding to the right virtual sub-interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jing Liu, Li Li, Tao Wang
  • Patent number: 10872502
    Abstract: An electronic gaming device comprising a display that displays a plurality of symbols in a plurality of symbol positions, a game controller that determines if the plurality of symbols include a trigger symbol, in response to determining that the plurality of symbols include the trigger symbol, controls the display to display the trigger symbol being transformed into a prize component symbol, incrementally animates a filling of a prize component of a first prize with the prize component symbol, and awards the first prize when a plurality of first prize components have been completely filled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Inventors: Karen Kendall, James Loader, Lauren Paterson, Antoon Visser